10032 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 30 / Tuesday, February 13, 2024 / Notices 

1See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India: 

Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2021–2022, 88 FR 88582 (December 22, 

2023) (Final Results). 

2Commerce initiated on this company as Raaj 

Sagar Steel. See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 87 FR 

61278, 61280 (October 11, 2022). We are treating 

this company as identical to Raaj Sagar Steels on 

whom Commerce initiated a review in all prior 

administrative reviews of this order. See Initiation 

of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews, 86 FR 55811, 55813 

(October 7, 2021); see also Initiation of 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews, 85 FR 63081, 63083 

(October 6, 2020); Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 84 FR 

53411, 53413 (October 7, 2019); and Initiation of 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews, 83 FR 50077, 50079 

(October 4, 2018). 

1See Brass Rod from India: Final Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determination, 88 FR 87407 

(December 18, 2023). 

2See ITC’s Letter, ‘‘Notification of ITC Final 

Determination,’’ dated February 1, 2024 (ITC 

Notification). 

3 Id. 

4See Brass Rod from India: Preliminary 

Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, 88 

FR 67240 (September 29, 2023) (Preliminary 

Determination), and accompanying Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

88584, remove the following names 

from the Appendix: Bansidhar 

Chiranjilal; Norma (India) Limited; R. N. 

Gupta & Company Limited; Uma 

Shanker Khandelwal & Co.; and USK 

Exports Private Limited. 

Background 

On December 22, 2023, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

final results of the administrative review 

of the AD order on finished carbon steel 

flanges from India.1 The Appendix in 

the Final Results was intended to be a 

list of companies not selected for 

individual examination. However, it 

mistakenly included companies that 

were selected for individual 

examination, specifically Bansidhar 

Chiranjilal, Norma (India) Limited, R. N. 

Gupta & Company Limited, Uma 

Shanker Khandelwal & Co., and USK 

Exports Private Limited. Commerce will 

ensure that the cash deposit and 

liquidation instructions it issues to U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection 

following publication of this correction 

notice reflect the application of the 

dumping margin determined in the 

Final Results for the non-selected 

companies listed in the Appendix to 

this notice. A corrected list of 

companies not selected for individual 

examination is in the Appendix of this 

notice. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with sections 751(a) and 

777(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended, and 19 CFR 351.205(c). 

Dated: February 7, 2024. 

Ryan Majerus, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and 

Negotiations, performing the non-exclusive 

functions and duties of the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. 

Appendix 

Non-Selected Respondent Companies 

1. Adinath International. 

2. Allena Group. 

3. Alloyed Steel. 

4. Balkrishna Steel Forge Pvt. Ltd. 

5. Bebitz Flanges Works Private Limited. 

6. BFN Forgings Private Limited. 

7. C.D. Industries. 

8. Cetus Engineering Private Limited. 

9. CHW Forge. 

10. CHW Forge Pvt. Ltd. 

11. Citizen Metal Depot. 

12. Corum Flange. 

13. DN Forge Industries. 

14. Echjay Forgings Limited. 

15. Falcon Valves and Flanges Private 

Limited. 

16. Heubach International. 

17. Hindon Forge Pvt. Ltd. 

18. Jai Auto Private Limited. 

19. Kinnari Steel Corporation. 

20. M F Rings and Bearing Races Ltd. 

21. Mascot Metal Manufactures. 

22. Munish Forge Private Limited. 

23. OM Exports. 

24. Punjab Steel Works (PSW). 

25. R. D. Forge. 

26. Raaj Sagar Steel.2

27. Ravi Ratan Metal Industries. 

28. Rolex Fittings India Pvt. Ltd. 

29. Rollwell Forge Engineering Components 

and Flanges. 

30. Rollwell Forge Pvt. Ltd. 

31. SHM (ShinHeung Machinery). 

32. Siddhagiri Metal & Tubes. 

33. Sizer India. 

34. Steel Shape India. 

35. Sudhir Forgings Pvt. Ltd. 

36. Tirupati Forge. 

37. Umashanker Khandelwal Forging 

Limited. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–533–916] 

Brass Rod From India: Countervailing 

Duty Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final 

determinations by the U.S. Department 

of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC), 

Commerce is issuing a countervailing 

duty order on brass rod from India. 

DATES: Applicable February 13, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dusten Hom or Mary Kolberg, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office I, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–5075 or (202) 482–1785, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In accordance with section 705(d) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act), on December 18, 2023, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register its 

affirmative final determination in the 

countervailing duty investigation of 

brass rod from India.1 On February 1, 

2024, the ITC notified Commerce of its 

final affirmative determination that an 

industry in the United States is 

materially injured by reason of 

subsidized imports of brass rod from 

India, within the meaning of sections 

705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 702(d) of the Act.2

Scope of the Order 

The product covered by this order is 

brass rod from India. For a complete 

description of the scope of this order, 

see the appendix to this notice. 

Countervailing Duty Order 

On February 1, 2024, in accordance 

with sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 705(d) 

of the Act, the ITC notified Commerce 

of its final determination that an 

industry in the United States is 

materially injured by reason of imports 

of brass rod from India.3 Therefore, in 

accordance with 705(c)(2) and 706 of 

the Act, Commerce is issuing this 

countervailing duty order. Because the 

ITC determined that imports of brass 

rod from India are materially injuring a 

U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of 

such merchandise from India entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption are subject to the 

assessment of countervailing duties. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

706(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce will 

direct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further 

instruction by Commerce, 

countervailing duties on all relevant 

entries of brass rod from India. 

Countervailing duties will be assessed 

on unliquidated entries of brass rod 

from India which are entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after September 29, 

2023, the date of publication of the 

Preliminary Determination,4 but will 

not be assessed on entries occurring 

after the expiration of the provisional 


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5See section 706(a)(3) of the Act. 

6As discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, Commerce found the following 

company to the cross-owned with RMPL: Rajhans 

Allowys Private Limited (RAPL). However, effective 

March 11, 2016, RAPL was amalgamated with 

RMPL, and since then, ceased to be a separate 

entity. 

7See Preliminary Determination. 

8See Regulations to Improve Administration and 

Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing 

Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20, 2021) 

(Final Rule). 

9See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry 

Service List; and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 

53205 (September 27, 2021) (Procedural Guidance). 

10 Id. 

11This segment will be combined with the 

ACCESS Segment Specific Information (SSI) field, 

which will display the month in which the notice 

of the order or suspended investigation was 

published in the Federal Register, also known as 

the anniversary month. For example, for an order 

under case number A–000–000 that was published 

in the Federal Register in January, the relevant 

segment and SSI combination will appear in 

ACCESS as ‘‘AISL-January Anniversary.’’ Note that 

there will be only one annual inquiry service list 

segment per case number, and the anniversary 

month will be pre-populated in ACCESS. 

12The petitioners are the American Brass Rod 

Fair Trade Coalition and its members, Mueller Brass 

Co., and Wieland Chase LLC. 

13See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335. 

measures period and before publication 

of the ITC’s final affirmative injury 

determination, as further described in 

the ‘‘Provisional Measures’’ section 

below. 

Suspension of Liquidation and Cash 

Deposits 

In accordance with section 706 of the 

Act, Commerce will instruct CBP to 

continue to suspend liquidation of all 

relevant entries of brass rod from India, 

effective on the date of publication of 

the ITC’s final determination in the 

Federal Register. These instructions 

suspending liquidation will remain in 

effect until further notice. 

Commerce also intends, pursuant to 

section 706(a)(1) of the Act, to instruct 

CBP to require cash deposits equal to 

the amounts as indicated below. 

Accordingly, effective on the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final affirmative 

injury determination in the Federal 

Register, CBP will require, at the same 

time as importers would deposit 

estimated normal customs duties on the 

subject merchandise, a cash deposit for 

each entry of subject merchandise equal 

to the subsidy rates listed below.5 The 

all-others rate applies to all producers or 

exporters not specifically listed below, 

as appropriate. 

Company 

Subsidy rate 

(percent 

ad valorem) 

Rajhans Metals Private Limited 6 .................................... 2.24 

All Others ................................ 2.24 

Provisional Measures 

Section 703(d) of the Act states that 

suspension of liquidation instructions 

issued pursuant to an affirmative 

preliminary determination may not 

remain in effect for more than four 

months. Commerce published its 

Preliminary Determination on 

September 29, 2023.7 Therefore, the 

provisional measures period, beginning 

on the date of publication of the 

Preliminary Determination, ended on 

January 27, 2024. Pursuant to section 

707(b) of the Act, the collection of cash 

deposits at the rates listed above will 

begin on the date of publication of the 

ITC’s final affirmative injury 

determination. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

703(d) of the Act, we instructed CBP to 

terminate the suspension of liquidation 

and to liquidate without regard to 

countervailing duties, unliquidated 

entries of brass rod from India entered, 

or withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after January 27, 

2024, the date on which the provisional 

measures expired, through the day 

preceding the date of publication of the 

ITC’s final injury determination in the 

Federal Register. Suspension of 

liquidation will resume on the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final affirmative 

injury determination in the Federal 

Register. 

Establishment of the Annual Inquiry 

Service List 

On September 20, 2021, Commerce 

published the Final Rule in the Federal 

Register.8 On September 27, 2021, 

Commerce also published the 

Procedural Guidance in the Federal 

Register.9 The Final Rule and 

Procedural Guidance provide that 

Commerce will maintain an annual 

inquiry service list for each order or 

suspended investigation, and any 

interested party submitting a scope 

ruling application or request for 

circumvention inquiry shall serve a 

copy of the application or request on the 

persons on the annual inquiry service 

list for that order, as well as any 

companion order covering the same 

merchandise from the same country of 

origin.10

In accordance with the Procedural 

Guidance, for orders published in the 

Federal Register after November 4, 

2021, Commerce will create an annual 

inquiry service list segment in 

Commerce’s online e-filing and 

document management system, 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS), 

available at https://access.trade.gov/, 

within five business days of publication 

of the notice of the order. Each annual 

inquiry service list will be saved in 

ACCESS, under each case number, and 

under a specific segment type called 

‘‘AISL-Annual Inquiry Service List.’’ 11

Interested parties who wish to be 

added to the annual inquiry service list 

for an order must submit an entry of 

appearance to the annual inquiry 

service list segment for the order in 

ACCESS within 30 days after the date of 

publication of the order. For ease of 

administration, Commerce requests that 

law firms with more than one attorney 

representing interested parties in an 

order designate a lead attorney to be 

included on the annual inquiry service 

list. Commerce will finalize the annual 

inquiry service list within five business 

days thereafter. As mentioned in the 

Procedural Guidance, the new annual 

inquiry service list will be in place until 

the following year, when the 

Opportunity Notice for the anniversary 

month of the order is published. 

Commerce may update an annual 

inquiry service list at any time as 

needed based on interested parties’ 

amendments to their entries of 

appearance to remove or otherwise 

modify their list of members and 

representatives, or to update contact 

information. Any changes or 

announcements pertaining to these 

procedures will be posted to the 

ACCESS website at https:// 

access.trade.gov. 

Special Instructions for Petitioners 12

and Foreign Governments 

In the Final Rule, Commerce stated 

that, ‘‘after an initial request and 

placement on the annual inquiry service 

list, both petitioners and foreign 

governments will automatically be 

placed on the annual inquiry service list 

in the years that follow.’’ 13

Accordingly, as stated above, the 

petitioner and the Government of India 

should submit its initial entry of 

appearance after publication of this 

notice in order to appear in the first 

annual inquiry service list for this order. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.225(n)(3), the 

petitioner and the Government of India 

will not need to resubmit their entries 

of appearance each year to continue to 

be included on the annual inquiry 

service list. However, the petitioner and 

the Government of India are responsible 

for making amendments to their entries 

of appearance during the annual update 

to the annual inquiry service list in 


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10034 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 30 / Tuesday, February 13, 2024 / Notices 

1See Truck and Bus Tires from the People’s 

Republic of China: Amended Final Determination 

and Countervailing Duty Order, 84 FR 4434 

(February 15, 2019) (Order). 

2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 

21609 (April 11, 2023). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Respondent Selection,’’ 

dated June 2, 2023. 

4See Bridgestone Companies’ Letter, 

‘‘Withdrawal of Request for Administrative 

Review,’’ dated June 12, 2023. 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Second Respondent 

Selection,’’ dated June 20, 2023. 

6See Jiangsu Hankook’s Letter, ‘‘Withdrawal of 

Request for Administrative Review,’’ dated July 3, 

2023. 

7See Commerce’s Letter, ‘‘Second Selection of 

Additional Mandatory Respondent,’’ dated 

September 8, 2023. 

8See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review; 2021,’’ dated September 29, 

2023. 

9See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review and Recission of Review in 

Part; 2022: Truck and Bus Tires from the People’s 

Republic of China,’’ dated concurrently with, and 

hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum). 

10See Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

accordance with the procedures 

described above. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the 

countervailing duty order with respect 

to brass rod from India pursuant to 

section 706(a) of the Act. Interested 

parties can find a list of duty orders 

currently in effect at https:// 

enforcement.trade.gov/stats/ 

iastats1.html. 

This CVD order is published in 

accordance with section 706(a) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: February 5, 2024. 

Ryan Majerus 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and 

Negotiations, performing the non-exclusive 

functions and duties of the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. 

Appendix 

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by this order are 

brass rod and bar (brass rod), which is 

defined as leaded, low-lead, and no-lead 

solid brass made from alloys such as, but not 

limited to the following alloys classified 

under the Unified Numbering System (UNS) 

as C27450, C27451, C27460, C34500, C35000, 

C35300, C35330, C36000, C36300, C37000, 

C37700, C48500, C67300, C67600, and 

C69300, and their international equivalents. 

The brass rod subject to this order has an 

actual cross-section or outside diameter 

greater than 0.25 inches but less than or 

equal to 12 inches. Brass rod cross-sections 

may be round, hexagonal, square, or 

octagonal shapes as well as special profiles 

(e.g., angles, shapes), including hollow 

profiles. 

Standard leaded brass rod covered by the 

scope contains, by weight, 57.0–65.0 percent 

copper; 0.5–3.0 percent lead; no more than 

1.3 percent iron; and at least 15 percent zinc. 

No-lead or low-lead brass rod covered by the 

scope contains by weight 59.0–76.0 percent 

copper; 0–1.5 percent lead; no more than 

0.35 percent iron; and at least 15 percent 

zinc. Brass rod may also include other 

chemical elements (e.g., nickel, phosphorous, 

silicon, tin, etc.). 

Brass rod may be in straight lengths or 

coils. Brass rod covered by this order may be 

finished or unfinished, and may or may not 

be heated, extruded, pickled, or cold-drawn. 

Brass rod may be produced in accordance 

with ASTM B16, ASTM B124, ASTM B981, 

ASTM B371, ASTM B453, ASTM B21, ASTM 

B138, and ASTM B927, but such conformity 

to an ASTM standard is not required for the 

merchandise to be included within the scope. 

Excluded from the scope of this order is 

brass ingot, which is a casting of unwrought 

metal unsuitable for conversion into brass 

rod without remelting, that contains, by 

weight, at least 57.0 percent copper and 15.0 

percent zinc. 

The merchandise covered by this order is 

currently classifiable under subheadings 

7407.21.9000, 7407.21.7000, and 

7407.21.1500 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). 

Products subject to the scope may also enter 

under HTSUS subheadings 7403.21.0000, 

7407.21.3000, and 7407.21.5000. The HTSUS 

subheadings and UNS alloy designations are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes. The written description of the 

scope of the order is dispositive. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03073 Filed 2–12–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–041] 

Truck and Bus Tires From the People’s 

Republic of China: Preliminary Results 

of Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review and Rescission of Review in 

Part, 2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that countervailable 

subsidies were provided to producers 

and exporters of truck and bus tires 

from the People’s Republic of China 

(China), during the period of review 

(POR) from January 1, 2022, through 

December 31, 2022. In addition, 

Commerce is rescinding the review, in 

part, with respect to 15 companies. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on these preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable February 13, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ted 

Pearson, AD/CVD Operations, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–2631. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On February 15, 2019, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

countervailing duty order on truck and 

bus tires from China.1 On February 2, 

2023, Commerce published in the 

Federal Register the notice of initiation 

of an administrative review of the 

Order.2 On May 19, 2022, Commerce 

selected Qingdao Ge Rui Da Rubber Co., 

Ltd. and Bridgestone (Shenyang) Tire 

Co., Ltd. (Bridgestone Shenyang) for 

individual examination as the 

mandatory respondents in this 

administrative review.3 On June 12, 

2023, Bridgestone Corporation, 

Bridgestone Tire Co. Ltd. (Bridgestone 

Tire), and Bridgestone Shenyang 

(collectively, Bridgestone Companies) 

withdrew their request for 

administrative review.4 On June 20, 

2023, we selected Jiangsu Hankook Tire 

Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Hankook) for 

individual examination.5 On July 3, 

2023, Jiangsu Hankook withdrew its 

request for review.6 On September 8, 

2023, we selected Jiangsu General 

Science Technology Co., Ltd. (General 

Science) for individual examination and 

requested that the GOC forward the 

initial questionnaire.7 On September 29, 

2023, Commerce extended the deadline 

for the preliminary results of review by 

100 days, until February 8, 2024.8

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this review, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.9 A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

I to this notice. The Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum is a public 

document and is on file electronically 

via Enforcement and Compliance’s 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Centralized Electronic Service System 

(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to 

registered users at http://access.trade.

gov. In addition, a complete version of 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

can be accessed directly at https://

access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesList

Layout.aspx. 

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by the Order 

are truck and bus tires. For a complete 

description of the scope of the Order, 

see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.10


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